I've finally seen it.

[Sufler]

The famous Astro at the Air & Space Museum in D.C. To be completely honest, I forgot that it was there until my eyes did this when I saw it . It clicked and I realized what it was immediately. Conditions for good quality pictures were not.

Any RMK fan in the DMV area should go.

:thumbup:

 

[Melvin-Purvis]

Pretty cool eh Raf! I had a chance to work at a DOD lab in Baltimore a few years back; on the last day there, a summer half-day, I took the rail into DC and had a chance to visit the Natural History n' Air and Space museums before they shut down for the day....super cool stuff to be seen there, this famous knife being part of it. IIRC, though, the sheath displayed with it at the time didn't match the knife, in that it was newer. Still, good times.

 

[Sufler]

Mel,

Yes - the museum itself was spectacular.

There wasn't a sheath with the Astro I saw. The display was weird to me as it was in a floor-to-ceiling tall plexy box set at an angle. The knife was difficult to see from the front of the display.

I wonder which of the two that they have this is and if there's any distinction between the two (the sheath may be it).

http://www.randallknives.com/knives/model-17-astro/

Here's a Russian survival knife that was on display along with Gagarin's items.

 

[ron_m80]

I met one of the UDT mbers that performed capsule recovery on the Apollo missions. He was still on active duty back in 94'. I always wondered if the missing knife went with one of them.

 

[ron_m80]

Would you look at how practical that shallow choil is, drooollll.